kopto describes mourning in lament and, in road scenes, cutting branches.

Its dominant attested use is mourning in response to death, lament, or a coming sight; a smaller group of occurrences describes cutting branches that are spread on a road.

1. Mourning in lament or distress · dominant

   The middle forms occur where people mourn: in Luke 23:27 the APB renders women as “mourning and lamenting him,” and in Luke 8:52 it renders those present as “weeping and mourning her.” In Matthew 11:17 the response to a dirge is that “you did not mourn”; Matthew 24:30, Revelation 18:9, and Revelation 1:7 place the future forms in scenes where tribes or kings mourn at what they see.

   Luke 23:27Luke 8:52Matthew 11:17Matthew 24:30Revelation 18:9Revelation 1:7
2. Cutting branches for the road · occasional

   In Mark 11:8 the aorist active participle occurs with others who had cut leafy branches from the fields before spreading them on the road. In Matthew 21:8 the imperfect active form occurs as others were cutting branches from trees and spreading them on the road.

   Mark 11:8Matthew 21:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the mourning use with “mourn” or “mourning,” alongside “lamenting” and “weeping” in some verses, while the road scenes are presented as cutting branches. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings reflect the clauses’ overall presentation.